Erik Deckers, co-owner and VP of creative services for Professional Blog Service in Indianapolis, has plenty of experience attracting audiences. He has been blogging since 1997, has been a newspaper humor columnist for 17 years, and co-authored Branding Yourself: How to Use Social Media to Invent or Reinvent Yourself and helped write Twitter Marketing For Dummies.

On his blog, he recently tackled QR codes, those unsightly blocks popping up everywhere from museum displays to magazine advertisements (that’s a QR code pointing to the workshop). […]

The 2012 Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop at the University of Dayton will kick off with a keynote talk from Alan Zweibel, an original Saturday Night Live writer and author of the 2006 Thurber Prize-winning novel The Other Shulman.

Online registration for the workshop, slated April 19-21, opens at noon on Tuesday, Dec. 6. The registration fee is $375, with 35 free scholarships available for University of Dayton students, beginning in mid-January. More information about faculty and sessions is available through the “2012 Workshop” […]

No? Maybe The CHICKtionary: From A-Line to Z-Snap, the Words Every Woman Should Know by Anna Lefler can help you out. Anna will be with us at the 2012 Bombeck Workshop talking about how a publisher came to her to write the book.

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Humor Writer of the Month

“I like to think of quotation marks as T. rex fingers, demarcating the words inside as special — kind of like the lucky underwear you only wear when you want to have an exceptionally awesome day.”Curtis Honeycutt makes grammar fun in his nationally syndicated column, “Grammar Guy,” which appears weekly in more than 100 newspapers.
His amusing musings about gender-inclusive pronouns, prepositions at the end of sentences and the dreaded autocorrect function on IPhones garnered third place in the 2018 column contest sponsored by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists for print publications over 50,000. […]